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- Summary of the Educational Resources
- Information Center (ERIC) Redesign
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- The 16 clearinghouses acquire, review and disseminate documents,
- prepare indexes and abstracts which are entered into the ERIC
- database. Each clearinghouse also prepares periodic reports,
- digests, and other documents that cover research in the areas
- assigned to the clearinghouse. The clearinghouse configuration
- follows:
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- Adult, Career, and Vocational Education. Covers adult,
- continuing, career and vocational educational and related areas
- such as proprietary schools. Includes all levels of adult and
- continuing education from basic literacy training through
- professional skill upgrading; vocational and technical education
- covering all service areas for secondary, postsecondary, and
- adult populations; career education and career development
- programs for all ages and populations in educational,
- institutional commercial, and industrial settings.
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- Counseling and Personnel. Covers preparation, practice, and
- supervision of counselors at all educational levels and in all
- settings; theoretical development of counseling and guidance;
- personnel procedures such as testing and interviewing and the
- analysis and dissemination of the resultant information; group
- work and case work; nature of pupil, student, and adult
- characteristics; personnel workers and their relation to career
- planning, family consultations and student orientation
- activities.
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- Educational Management. Covers leadership, management, finance,
- governance, and structure of public and private secondary
- schools. Includes schools, school districts, and other
- educational agencies with emphasis on training, practice and
- theory of administration, inservice and preservice preparation of
- administrators; methods and varieties of organizations;
- organizational change and finance; and research on the components
- of effective schooling.
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- Elementary and Early Childhood Education. Covers physical,
- cognitive, social, educational and cultural development of
- children from birth through early adolescence. Includes learning
- theory, research and practice related to the development of young
- children.
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- Handicapped and Gifted Children. Covers education and
- development of the special child, including prevention,
- identification, assessment, intervention and enrichment.
- Includes areas relevant to both handicapped and gifted
- populations including early childhood education, curriculum,
- teaching methods, administration, career education, teacher
- preparation, legislative and judicial requirements, program
- development and evaluation, and related services.